Online vegetable trading: Got more tomatoes from your garden then you could possibly eat? Really want some homegrown watermelon? Veggie Trader is a new site that allow you to “…trade, buy or sell local homegrown produce.” (via Planet Green)

EVs hit prime time: Prime time television, that is: Jay Leno plans to host a “Green Car Challenge” regularly on his new show that will feature “…celebrities who will take turns trying to best one another’s track times in a specially prepared Ford Focus-based battery car.” (via Examiner.com)

Plastics to oil: Envion, Inc., has announced a new technology for extracting oil from waste plastic. Good news on the landfills front… but calling it “sustainable” and “renewable” seems a bit of a stretch…

Dates to ethanol: That’s a plan in Iraq to get the agricultural sector back up and running… (via Gas 2.0)

Bike-powered charger:Dahon’s BioLogic FreeCharge, which the company will roll out in 2010, is a gadget that will collect energy from your bicycle, and allow you to use that energy to power/charge other electronic devices. (via Green Living Ideas)